How About An "Incognito" Player Status?

[Texa]

That sounds like a great idea for RMT bots.

Ultimately, everything that you do on FF XIV is public information. Nobody can go through your chat logs but the GMs and your flist is private by default, but you don't even need the game to tell if someone has been online or not just Lodestone.

[TiaHariberux3]

What's your problem?

Well if 2 clicks are "all that trouble" it cant be that bad right? Im telling you there are 3 ways against this and you cant come up with a reason which justify a new status. With the solutions above you can easily avoid this. A usual /tell from a random will stop if u ignore it if not?blacklist. Someone stalk you so hard ingame/lodestone report them they wont do it again unless they want perma ban. Now you bring FC invites to this discussion this just proves my point in being right since you cant even answer/give a valid reason because there are already ways to prevent this. Its kinda funny how you say I doubt you the thing is what should I even doubt xD.

[Magic-Mal]

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I brought in FCs because for some reason you're not including that as one of my reasons and you're ignoring it : p.

Sure you can blacklist. But did blacklist ever fix anything? Does reporting ever fix anything nowadays? By the way, reporting is far from 2 buttons. That kind of report is only through a chat. You cant inspect -> report for stalking.

Ignore it?: Shouldn't have to.
Blacklist?: Shouldn't have to. Easily prevented if they can't get to you in the first place.
Report?: Too much hassle. Send ticket. Wait for response. And wait for action. And pray for results.
/Busy?: Shouldn't have to cut off all communication.

[TiaHariberux3]

I brought in FCs because for some reason you're not including that as one of my reasons and you're ignoring it : p.

Sure you can blacklist. But did blacklist ever fix anything? Does reporting ever fix anything nowadays?

I dont know why you say blacklist and reporting doesnt fix anything lol. 2 clicks were meant for blacklisting but reporting takes like 2 min max and you wont have that person stalk u ever again. Since you like irl examples... Someone is talking to you what you think? I shouldnt have to ignore that person? xD He shouldnt be able to talk to me in the first place? xD

[Magic-Mal]

I dont know why you say blacklist and reporting doesnt fix anything lol. 2 clicks were meant for blacklisting but reporting takes like 2 min max and you wont have that person stalk u ever again. Since you like irl examples... Someone is talking to you what you think? I shouldnt have to ignore that person? xD He shouldnt be able to talk to me in the first place? xD

Pretty sure a ban doesn't take 2mins...... And it isn't guaranteed either. To ban, you would already have to be getting trolled. So the game already failed in player privacy.


Your example, I don't understand it.

[TiaHariberux3]

To ban, you would already have to be getting trolled.

Pretty sure I said the reporting takes 2mins in my post above and a ban happens pretty fast after a report. Well my example you have smth against ppl who talk to you randomly which should be prevented you think irl if someone randomly starts talking to u it should be prevented too? I mean you can just ignore the person.

[Magic-Mal]

Pretty sure I said the reporting takes 2mins in my post above and a ban happens pretty fast after a report. Well my example you have smth against ppl who talk to you randomly which should be prevented you think irl if someone randomly starts talking to u it should be prevented too? I mean you can just ignore the person.

If someone talks to me they'd have to be near me. A correct example would be spam companies calling your phone. You can ignore it, sure. Most people including myself probably put their phone on "Do Not Call". But can still talk to friends and family.

I'd rather not put each number on the blacklist.

[PondHollow]

While it has its merits, if OP's idea gets off the ground, for some of us it would do more harm than good in terms of reducing new rapport-formation. I assume that most people make most of their in-game friends in the game (in my case, all), occasionally by looking up someone you were friendly with earlier and /tell-ing them ... if a new behavior arises that jeopardizes this it would be quite a magnificent loss. ;_;

Think of it like how Facebook gradually shifted its mission away from meeting new people and has now become solely about organizing existing relations. That would be incredibly unhealthy for a game like this.

[Magic-Mal]

I assume that most people make most of their in-game friends in the game (in my case, all), occasionally by looking up someone you were friendly with earlier and /tell-ing them ... if a new behavior arises that jeopardizes this it would be quite a magnificent loss. ;_;

Think of it like how Facebook gradually shifted its mission away from meeting new people and has now become solely about organizing existing relations. That would be incredibly unhealthy for a game like this.

1st paragraph: This is true for some. But the user would have to be aware of this ahead of time.

2nd paragraph: Didn't they bump the security because bad things were happening? PS4 and PS3 PSNs have many privacy settings to prevent people from getting to you. Including an "Incognito" mode. I get what you're saying, but options like these are made because of trolling, spam etc.

[TiaHariberux3]

If someone talks to me they'd have to be near me. A correct example would be spam companies calling your phone. You can ignore it, sure. Most people including myself probably put their phone on "Do Not Call". But can still talk to friends and family.

I'd rather not put each number on the blacklist.

Seems like you wont understand it. All I hear is "someone is talking to me they shouldnt be able to talk to me in the first place because Im to lazy to blacklist/ignore them" and "someone is following me but Im to lazy to report this person". Like I said 3ways to simply solve your problem fast. A status you suggested will most likely never happen because of the reasons I already told you. You can disagree as often as you want but that doesnt change the fact that devs shouldnt work to make up for your laziness on a useless feature that hurts the game more than it helps. Also like I said in a other post you could always add your friends outside of the game.


I dont know what you mean with "getting to you" in the post above. There is a difference between rl information locked behind privacy settings and a game lmao.